Welcome to our wiki created for the class LIBR562, International Issues & Innovations


This wiki is the collaborative work of Felicia, Reta, Rosemary and Sarah and explores the topic question:



How literacy affects library services, the role of libraries in literacy development and any initiatives to provide service to non, semi and neo literate populations


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Photo credit: London Public Library, retrieved 19 Aug 2011 from http://www.flickr.com/photos/londonpubliclibrary/4881988061/ and used under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.
We will be exploring the relationship between literacy and library services and showing how libraries play a role in literacy development through case studies of different populations in Africa. To navigate this wiki, use the links on the left which divide the topic into the various subsections. Thank you and we hope will you enjoy our presentation.